| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Tom Sawyer, Detective by Mark Twain: out into the dark and the storm, and he was a-hoping
he could get to this town all right and be safe.
But he had two pals aboard the boat, hiding, and he
knowed they was going to kill him the first chance they
got and take the di'monds; because all three stole them,
and then this fellow he got hold of them and skipped.
"Well, he hadn't been gone more'n ten minutes before
his pals found it out, and they jumped ashore and lit
out after him. Prob'ly they burnt matches and found
his tracks. Anyway, they dogged along after him all
day Saturday and kept out of his sight; and towards
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: ever been other than outcast and outlaw? What hopes
could you have engendered in his breast greater than
to be hated and feared among his blood enemies?"
"I knowst not thy reasons, old man," replied the
priest, "for devoting thy life to the ruining of his, and
what I guess at be such as I dare not voice; but let us
understand each other once and for all. For all thou
dost and hast done to blight and curse the nobleness of
his nature, I have done and shall continue to do all in
my power to controvert. As thou hast been his bad
angel, so shall I try to be his good angel, and when all
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. These
are the great truths of modern life which Hughie Erskine never
realised. Poor Hughie! Intellectually, we must admit, he was not
of much importance. He never said a brilliant or even an ill-
natured thing in his life. But then he was wonderfully good-
looking, with his crisp brown hair, his clear-cut profile, and his
grey eyes. He was as popular with men as he was with women and he
had every accomplishment except that of making money. His father
had bequeathed him his cavalry sword and a HISTORY OF THE
PENINSULAR WAR in fifteen volumes. Hughie hung the first over his
looking-glass, put the second on a shelf between RUFF'S GUIDE and
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